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Most media Mexico agreed to unify criteria on coverage of drug violence to protect its journalists, avoid spreading terror or become "accidental spokespeople" of crime, although the text did not reach consensus.
The "Agreement for the coverage of Violence", promoted by the television networks Televisa (the largest English-speaking) and TV Azteca, was signed on Thursday 61 / 2 at a public ceremony broadcast live.

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The document states that its purpose is "to propose common editorial standards" for coverage to avoid violence on "spreading terror among the population and provide mechanisms for the protection of journalists. " Among its commitments
means you agreed to: "Do not become unwitting spokesman for organized crime," not to interfere in the fight against crime "and" solidarity against any threat or action against reporters and media. "
also include measures to protect reporters not to sign as articles on drug trafficking, conducting joint coverage on sensitive issues and avoid reporting live from the most violent areas.
The text, signed also by several state-owned media as well as business associations and NGOs failed to generate consensus in the mainstream media.
Five of the national newspapers joined, but not Reform and The Day-two leading newspapers, "and not the process, a weekly magazine specializing in allegations of drug trafficking, or the MVS radio network, among others.
President Felipe Calderon called the agreement a "significant step" that combines the exercise of press freedom of the media with their "responsibility to the country and the national interest."
Jenaro Villamil, Proceso magazine journalist, known for its critical profile, told W Radio that the agreement "opens the door to the practice of censorship in the media who sign the agreement."

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By contrast, Rogelio Cardenas, director of the specialized journal El Financiero, denied that the agreement is a form of censorship. "For us it is not vice," he told AFP.
"Some electronic media do have to change the way you present (the drug-related information) to achieve record only the facts," he said.
cartels use their own strategies for disseminating messages, as the place with bodies of their victims or alleged confessions to publish videos online rivals, amid escalating violence that has left over 34,600 dead since December 2006 when the government ordered a crackdown drug trafficking with military involvement.
Balbina Flores, representative of Reporters Without Borders in Mexico, questioned whether the agreement assumes that the threats to journalists from the only organized crime in a country where 12 journalists were killed in 2010, according to the count of that organization.
"is a partial view" because according to the experience of civil organizations (...) journalists more than 60% of assaults on journalists from the authorities, "he told AFP.
The Argentine Edgardo Buscaglia, specialist in drug trafficking from Mexico's Autonomous Technological Institute and has been an external adviser to the UN on the issue considered the agreement as an attempt to "oligopolies (that) come together to try to manage the flow of information to the public."
"If you really believe in free market for information should let its journalists are far better trained first," adding that "Mexico has a drug problem any more, Mexico has multinational crime," without the media deeply concerned about it.
With 66 journalists killed in a decade according to the National Human Rights Commission, Mexico is considered by several international organizations such as Latin America's most dangerous country for journalism.